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Test 5 · Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupi…

"U put the milk in the oven?? lights are on but nobody's home, mate." What is the speaker saying?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: U, lights, speaker · What happens: put, be, say · To what, where: milk, oven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 35 «Soft words for hard things: failure and mistakes and stupidity and madness» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: "U put the milk in the oven?? lights are on but nobody's home, mate."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
2	U	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 milk	det
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 oven	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oven	det
8	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	??	??	PUNCT	_	10 lights	punct
10	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 on	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 on	cop
12	on	on	ADV	_	3 put	ccomp
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 home	cc
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 home	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 nobody	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mate	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	vocative
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	past	U	the milk		the oven		mate vocative	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme in oven=Destination
2	is in a quote	present	lights					on property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is the speaker saying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 saying	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speaker	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saying	nsubj
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	the speaker						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

The oven is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oven	det
2	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		the oven					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You were not thinking at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 thinking	advmod
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · progressive	You			all			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The lights in the house are on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lights	det
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 on	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lights	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 on	cop
7	on	on	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lights in the house					on property	tree rules

Option 4

Nobody is at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 home	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 home	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nobody			home			tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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